[Freedos-devel] About the "invoke.com" command...

2025-04-16 Thread Everaldo Bernardo Cunha via Freedos-devel
Hello everyone! I use the invoke.com command to generate log files in FreeDOS. However, with FreeDOS 1.4, this command no longer exists. How do I use the line below in my compilation batch: c.bat - @echo on: echo "Start the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Extended keyboard flag at 0040:0096 gets unexpectedly cleared

2025-04-16 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> Am 16.04.2025 um 21:32 schrieb tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > : > > before you posted "the flag gets cleared even before the first driver is > loaded, depending on what gets selected in the FreeDOS > boot menu (probably more which keys get pressed to achieve the selection)." > > the photos

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Extended keyboard flag at 0040:0096 gets unexpectedly cleared

2025-04-16 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Extended keyboard flag at 0040:0096 gets unexpectedly cleared

2025-04-16 Thread Ben Russell via Freedos-devel
My initial thoughts were "maybe we could see if 86Box emulates this and poke around the BIOS" but after seeing the pictures and the hard drive size... yeah, it's probably out of scope unless the BIOS somehow boots OK on a Pentium 2. Probably worth setting up a boot floppy and tracing the INT 1

Re: [Freedos-devel] Extended keyboard flag at 0040:0096 gets unexpectedly cleared

2025-04-16 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel, am Mittwoch, 16. April 2025 um 14:15 schrieben Sie: >> Am 14.04.2025 um 23:10 schrieb Bernd Böckmann : >> >> I will prepare such a kernel and make it available to Willi, but start with >> displaying 40:96 right before and after the menu selection, b

Re: [Freedos-devel] Extended keyboard flag at 0040:0096 gets unexpecte dly cleared

2025-04-16 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
I could be completely wrong, but 40:96 (& 40:97) are BIOS data and DOS would not normally have any direct effect on them. The enhanced keyboard bit should be set (or not) by the BIOS before DOS (or any OS) even begins to boot. Some of the bits will change in real-time as keys are being pressed

Re: [Freedos-devel] Extended keyboard flag at 0040:0096 gets unexpectedly cleared

2025-04-16 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> Am 14.04.2025 um 23:10 schrieb Bernd Böckmann : > > I will prepare such a kernel and make it available to Willi, but start with > displaying 40:96 right before and after the menu selection, before and after > the INT 16 calls are being made... I sent Willi an updated kernel which displays th